Re: [Hampshire] Media players

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Author: Hugo Mills
Date: 2009-02-25 23:37 -000
To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Media players

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On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:25:14PM +0000, trotter wrote:
> Interesting..... its the first player i have
> noticed that does high def mkv file
> format which is the high def equivalent of divx


I think you're confusing container formats and video formats.

MKV is not a video format, and neither is DivX. :)

MVK (Matroska) is a container type that can store a wide range of
different video, audio, and other data formats. DivX is an MPEG4 video
codec (i.e. a piece of software that encodes video according to a
particular profile of the MPEG4 standard). MPEG4 is just one of the
possible formats that could be stored in a Matroska container.

Hugo.

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